NEVER NORMAL

An amazing sense of inner peace washes over me. I'm just as pensive as always but, for some reason, I don't hurt. It's a little scary. I can't remember the last time I didn't hurt.

Not like pain in the sense of a broken toe, but rather a broken soul. The kind of hurt that starts before you even recognize its impact. That constant aching feeling within a void that seemingly will never be filled. Its thirst is never quenched and its hunger never fed.

I look around at the people in this world and I wonder if they, too, have this horrible hollow hell that is ever-so-slowly swallowing their being.

Everyone looks so "normal". People go to work, pay bills, have kids, buy homes, lease Hummers, shop in malls, fine dine, attend churches, rent movies, and email family. Do they do these things as complacently as they seem to? Have we, as a nation, really settled into such a rut?

I ponder great things. I question ALL things. I wonder what it's all about....outside this "society" we've created. There is a world thriving with life. One without boundaries of society. And outside this world, there are others in the universe. I can and do sit for hours imagining what else is out there. Galaxies, worm holes, suns, planets being born, and stars dying.

We are but grain of sand. Not on a beach full of sand, or on a planet full of beaches, but even on a grander scale. We are a grain of sand in the universe! Can you wrap your brain around that? Do you ever think about it? Or are you fixated on the electric bill, the reports for work, the clothes that need picked up at the dry-cleaner and your daughter's recital?

When did you decide dreams are illusions? When did coming home from work, eating a meal and watching American Idol become a good day?

C'mon, I'm not the only one who finds this lack of adventure and loss of journey to be discerning.

I love the possibilities. I love potential. I crave answers. I want to live life without the husband, without the kids, with a job not a career, without a mortgage and without certainty. I like getting lost in the stars and dreaming of life in another galaxy. I like the excitment of never knowing what comes next.

I'm not saying the basic things like money and a home are beyond me. But I like to keep it simple. I like to save my energy for creative thinking...I like to express my thoughts and having time to ponder them is crucial.

I never want to be normal. And I don't think I have to worry too much. As long as I can remember,I've been anything but.

WE ARE ON MARS, PEOPLE!!!

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

TODAY IS THE PERFECT DAY TO SIMPLY APPRECIATE